Findings of lung ultrasonography of novel corona virus pneumonia during the 2019–2020 epidemic

Abstract

, there have been 77,269 officially reported confirmed cases of 2019 novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in China. As lung abnormalities may develop before clinical manifestations and nucleic acid detection, experts have recommended early chest computerized tomography (CT) for screening suspected patients [1]. The high contagiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and the risk of transporting unstable patients with hypoxemia and hemodynamic failure make chest CT a limited option for the patient with suspected or established COVID-19. Lung ultrasonography gives the results that are similar to chest CT and superior to standard chest radiography for evaluation of pneumonia and/ or adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with the added advantage of ease of use at point of care, repeatability, absence of radiation exposure, and low cost [2]. In this report, we summarize our early experience with lung ultrasonography for evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in China with the intent of alerting frontline intensivists to the utility of lung ultrasonography for management of COVID-19. Ultrasonographic features of nCoV pneumonia We performed lung ultrasonography on 20 patients with COVID-19 using a 12-zone method [3]. Characteristic findings included the following:

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